Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

We lead the country in field-goal percentage defense at 37 (percent) coming in. We average 9.6 blocked shots per game. All those numbers would tell you that we did not do the things that we're capable of doing.

We have created a plan here that is so difficult, so confusing and so hard for average people to understand that many seniors are struggling to try to figure out what is the best plan to turn to in order to protect themselves,

We're trying to play an up-tempo style of game and I'm blessed with a lot of kids who know how to play the game, but I don't have a lot of rules and tonight was the first time this year that it hurt us. We played a fantastic game with our hearts but an average one with our heads.

Dan Simmons

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Dan Quayle

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

We used to have an average of 75 seniors on Fridays. Now we're up to an average of 100.

We shot a ton of free throws. We average about 55 percent from the line.

Walk-up (ticket sales) for the first (Stockton Thunder) hockey game was huge. We averaged 8,300 fans for Saturday hockey games, so I suspect we'll do that for football.

We have seen that customers take the product out on average an extra day or two longer.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to see daily sale figures, even if they were the average sale of a Monday, for instance, over a six-month period,

Donald Wildmon

This shows the average American that he doesn't have to simply sit back and take the trash being offered on TV, but he can get involved and fight back with his pocketbook.

When you hear the stats that the average age of widowhood is 58, it's scary.

There are 64 million Gen Y buyers coming into the marketplace. We know when they come to market to buy a vehicle, new or used, they will spend on average about $15,000.

When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be huge change in your take-home pay. But, cumulative, this will be a big chunk of change by the time 2010 rolls around. This is a $2.2 billion income tax cut.

David Eckstein

When you have a guy like (Pujols) who every single night comes out and with the lineups we've had has the average he has, the homers he has, the RBIs he has ... and plays defense the way he plays defense, that's (the MVP). It's not even a question.

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. If the emergency medical system gets a C- on an average day, how can it ever be expected to provide expert, efficient care during a natural disaster or terrorist attack?

There is about a 10th of a gram of feces in the average pair of underwear. You don't want to be doing your handkerchiefs with your underwear.

We run six to seven running backs all year. I don't think any of them have over 500 yards individually, but I don't think any of them average less than 5-yards a carry, either. And they all run the ball hard. If they don't, they know somebody else will.

We kept the sisters to a combined 25, and usually they average something like 45. Kris really took her out of it.

We keep saying the sky is falling -- all the policymakers have ignored us. If we don't put a large infusion of money to raise that average salary to closer to 25th in the nation, then this is just going to get more gloom and doom.

We think there's probably 300 to 400 homes somewhere in that average that may want us to demolish their house, so we'll work with those folks to do just that.

Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined?

Buzz Aldrin

why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.

To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.

Mike Tice

This young man averaged 1.87 (seconds) get-off in the game. Virtually, you could have a guy run free and he can't block the kick. So that's the great thing.

Michelle Perry

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We've been doing this 15 years, and we're seeing the full effects, ... We're well below the national average in loss of life and property for a community our size.

We've been really fortunate with our top lineup, No. 1, 2 and 3, the kids that are really committed to their tennis, that play tennis an average of five days a week, that really make a true commitment to this sport.

We were right around our average for our home course. A few missed shots, it could have gone either way.

We (Connecticut residents) are still better off than the average person in the United States. Our cost of living is higher here but our incomes our even higher.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

We do have average students in AP classes right now that are succeeding. They know it's more of a challenge, and they tend to strive and work a little bit harder in that class than they normally would in a Regents class.

Judie Brown

We don't believe the average American wants to see tiny, embryonic boys and girls -- children -- used as experimental material.